Is Atheism Best For Us?

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#Atheism    #Atheists   #Relativism
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Atheists affirm there’s no God of any kind, or angels, miracles, revelations, or human souls. They’re called humanists because they emphasize man as the measure or most valued animal on planet earth. And naturalists, since nature and its laws are all there is. Also, secularists since they say religious beliefs are only superstition and ignorance of a prescientific era. They’re materialists too because on a lower plane life is just energy or atoms in motion. Further, they’re socialists as they claim to seek the good of society as a whole—never mind the individual as our way is right. And we’re anti-theists because we believe that any reference to God is ignorant, closed-minded and dangerous to the well-being of humanity. Many use force if necessary to enlighten or eliminate these dangers of ignorant moral and religious restrictions opposed to government authority.

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So, you see some atheists feel they must do everything possible to exclude religion from the public square. They infiltrate education, government, the courts, news media, the entertainment field, and the sciences and arts. Some have a globally aggressive and comprehensive agenda and are confident of success. Now please let me enlighten you on five of the many "advantages" of atheism so they say.

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Atheists Deny Absolute Truth.

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Scientific minded intelligent persons know everything came about by chance and evolution that eliminates any need for God. Life arose spontaneously by random processes and everything flows along continuously as it always has. It’s all chance so anything can happen at any time. Society and the world is a dialectical process determined by economics; Karl Marx dialectal materialism proved that. Ignore those ignorant fool’s spurious deceptive arguments about God. Long ago brilliant minds discredited that propaganda. Truth is what we say it is, and what advances our cause. And when we’re in power, you best agree with us or face the consequences.

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Atheists Affirm the Relativity of Morals.

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 Since everything is in a state of flux and man is the highest evolving animal of nature, he must decide for himself what is right or wrong, or better what works or doesn’t at the present time. Since there’s no God, man must save himself by his own wisdom, power, and education. We are the elite of society who base our knowledge on science and reason. The ignorant, indifferent masses of people need us to guide them to provide a better world order. We are the elites, superior and politically correct.

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Atheism Frees People to Do As They Please.

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Religion is an escapist, restrictive mentality. It substitutes comfort and security—pie in the sky by and by—for science and fact. In the name of a judgmental God, it imposes all kinds of restrictions on sex, bodily pleasures, and enjoyable experiences. Since there’s no absolute truth and morals, we can do as we Johnny well please. Anarchy--everybody does what's right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25).     

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Atheist’s Claim to Insure Human Peace, Prosperity and Happiness.

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Human nature is creative and good. Take away the shackles of religion and we the elite are free to plan what’s good. We can create a world of peace, prosperity and happiness. People will unselfishly love each other and prosper as never before. Injustices and disparities such as racism, wealth, status will simply vanish and utopia finally arrive. It unrealistically denies both human dignity in God's image and human depravity as a fallen self-centered creature.

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Atheists Will Finally Insure Quality and Equality Living.

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 Karl Marx envisioned this utopia would last a thousand years. But it would take awhile to achieve. There is first the thesis, the status quo or things as they are at present. Then, an antithesis or radical change evolves, or we can help it along through revolt or plot disasters. When things get so bad, people will cry out for relief and hope government will resolve the crises. So, government seizes control piece by piece to resolve it if necessary by force. That changes things into a new synthesis. The dialectical process continues until we achieve utopia. Of course, we will have to eliminate defective elements (objectors) that don’t understand or won’t cooperate to have the classless society. Survival of the fittest you know. But the price is worth the outcome—people don’t really count anyway.

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Consider Comments by a Supposed Ignorant Unenlightened Christian Theist.

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 Of course, atheists can be kind, compassionate, helpful, likable, moral people and not all agree on all the points mentioned above. And atheists don’t always adhere to their philosophy just as Christians and merely professed Christians don’t always adhere to biblical Christian teaching.

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What bothers me is that the atheist worldview logically destroys everything human and good. Without God, human dignity is reduced to a soulless perishing animal—really just dirt. And it doesn’t matter much what you do with dirt. Thus, atheism destroys human dignity, ethics, human rights, and especially freedom of speech and religion, and then private property.

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Government ownership and control decides what’s true and what’s right--atheist freedom means slavery to the state and poverty among its unfavored people. The state must maintain tight military control and a secret police to prevent rebellion and anarchy. Government officials make secret deals behind closed doors. They advance by lying promises, deceptive schemes, and eliminate rivals--it all depends on who can get and keep the power. Elitist's are never secure that some rival won't eliminate them to take their place. Hitler had a hundred security guards; Churchhill had one.

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Our friends and loved one’s possessions and lives are usurped any time government decides it’s necessary. State planners carefully control production of goods less profit produce freedom and power. Incentive to produce is curtailed so everyone is kept in poverty under government control—this is the one class society and utopian equality—a slave welfare state.

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Atheists must erect walls to confine citizens. This is the peace, prosperity and happiness atheism produces and wants to engulf the world. Atheist dominated countries murder humanity. They’re a godless tyranny and blood bath people risk their lives to escape. Millions have been slaughtered in atheist countries--survival of the fittest you know. That’s the atheist utopian dream for humanity. Check it out in true, not revised, history.

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Why do atheists insist we ignore arguments for God if they’re no threat? Biblical Christianity is the antithesis of atheism. It assures us of God and absolute truth and morals in Jesus Christ. Jesus gave visible evidence in fulfilled prophecy, miracle, a sinless life, and in His cross and resurrection that He is our God and Savior. Jesus provides us with human dignity, ethics, freedom, rights with humane responsibilities, opportunity for Heaven, a creative productive purposeful life, and the basis for love, justice, science, art, and all the things we really need to be human. His higher power is truth, love, hope and salvation. Our choice is between life and death, tyranny or freedom, God in Christ or no God. Jesus showed us the better way—love first of God, then of our fellowman—His Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5-7.
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Jesus saves us unworthy sinners and makes us new persons in Christ. We have God's gift of eternal life and Heaven when we trust the Savior. Of course we retain our sinful nature and struggle with sin but we have God's Holy Spirit within to prompt us to grow in the knowledge and grace of God.  You will have brothers and sisters in Christ to encourage you and you can have rewards in Heaven. Won't you pray, "Lord, I'm a sinner and I trust You to come into my life and make me a child of God. Thank You Lord." Now share these good news messages with others to make a happier more secure world now and go to Heaven.
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Did Jesus Arise from the Tomb?

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#Resurrection
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Christianity stands tall and solid or crumbles into dust depending upon whether Jesus arose from the dead. All the tremendous benefits it alone promises humanity mean nothing if Christ is still in the grave like Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius and other religious founders are. Anyone who wants to destroy Christian belief can certainly do so by showing Jesus’ resurrection is a Christian lie. The major Christian spokesman, the Apostle Paul, admitted that if Christ is not raised, then the faith is vanity and all a lie (I Cor. 15:14-15). No resurrection means no Christianity.

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First, let’s consider the barricade of facts hostile critics must knock down. Then look at the tremendous benefits Christ alone offers suffering humanity.

The Barricade of Facts that must be Explained Away.

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Unless we have exhaustive knowledge, we can’t show God doesn’t exist, can’t walk among us as a man, and can’t arise from the dead. Such denial is simply metaphysical bias. So critics must show a better explanation that accounts for the facts than the actual resurrection itself. If they cannot, then honest thinking people should believe the bodily resurrection of Jesus is fact and Jesus is Lord and Savior as the Bible teaches and Christians have always believed.

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The critics deny the resurrection yet refute each others theories to explain it away. Failed theories include the swoon theory that Jesus didn’t really die, the disciples went to the wrong tomb, somebody stole Jesus’ body, the disciples had a vision from Heaven, or all the disciples hallucinated. Other more recent theories are Jesus’ body was buried somewhere, Judas or somebody substituted for Jesus on the cross,  Jesus' twin was crucified in his place, or we don’t know what really happened.

A superficial explanation will show how impossible and ridiculous these theories are.
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Consider these facts. The Old Testament predicted the Messiah would rise from the dead (Ps. 16:10). Jesus too predicted his death and resurrection several times. It’s clear Jesus actually died on the cross. The disciples fled in fear of their lives and were in despair. When his side was punctured with a spear, water and blood came out. His mother and disciple John who knew him well watched him die on the cross. Women who observed Jesus die went to the tomb where he was placed. A heavy two-ton stone was rolled before the tomb entrance. Roman soldiers sealed and guarded the tomb until it was opened by the angel. The guards were bribed to say the disciples stole the body while they slept. But the soldiers and Jewish authorities knew the tomb was found empty. Anybody could have investigated the tomb just outside Jerusalem. Jesus' presence was known all the while.
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On Easter morning, women came to the tomb to anoint Jesus’ body and found the tomb empty and the angel said Jesus was not there. Mary met Jesus thinking he was the gardener. Women first testified to Jesus’ resurrection though their testimony is legally discounted. Even though Jesus had predicted it, the disciples were astonished with unbelief.
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Peter and John visited the tomb and found the grave clothes neatly folded and the headpiece laying aside. Thomas wouldn’t believe unless he saw the nail-prints and felt Jesus’ speared side. Jesus appeared to them a dozen times in different places and in varied circumstances. He ate with them and talked of the kingdom of God. They touched him several times.
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The disciple’s attitude changed from despair to rejoicing. They changed Sabbath worship to Sunday worship since Jesus arose from the dead. They went everywhere preaching Jesus was God’s Son raised from the dead and formed churches. Jesus’ brother James at first doubted but became a believer. Saul the persecutor of Christians met Christ on the Damascus Road and became Paul the great preacher of Christ. He gave up a prospective leadership in Judaism to be persecuted for Christ and counted it not loss but gain. Jesus' resurrection is the only reasonable answer.

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Non-Christian writers mention many of the facts of Jesus’ life including his death and resurrection. Archaeology confirms many of the personalities, places and events mentioned in the New Testament. Can honest thinking people seriously believe these early Christians experienced all these things including torturous deaths for what they knew to be a lie?

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The Tremendous Benefits Only Christ’s Resurrection Can Provides Humanity.
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The risen Lord Jesus Christ alone assures us of resurrected life. If atheist views such as humanism, secularism and materialism are true, then there is no hope for life beyond the grave. We are just soulless dirt without dignity and destiny that anyone who usurps authority can abuse, manipulate and murder. If monist views such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism are true, we are just recycled energy that assumes multiple life forms until completely liberated into universal energy.
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Unlike other religions, only the resurrected Christ gave us visible proof of life beyond the grave. Jesus walked among us as the God-man. He claimed to be God many times and demonstrated it in many ways. He fulfilled specific ancient prophecies of the Jews Messiah and God. He walked on water, healed diseased immediately, raised the dead, accepted worship and forgave sins. Nobody but God can do such things. In Jesus, we alone have hope for life after death and rewards for godly service in this life.

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The living God-man alone assures us of dignity, rights, freedom and ethical responsibility. Jesus acknowledged our creation from the beginning (Gen. 1:26-27; Matt. 19:4). Molecules can’t arrange themselves into men. We, meaning both men and women, from the beginning were made in God’s image, a little lower than the angels. How we are treated and how we treat others, we will one day give answer to God our great Lawgiver and Judge. No other worldview can assure us of these most precious of human needs.  Only where Christian influence is strongly felt is this realized. Even apart from God’s Word, we have a conscience, human compassion, and the Golden Rule to tell us of right and wrong and of human dignity and rights. Even so, when temptation is strong, detection unlikely, and ambition fierce, human abuse is likely to follow. Jesus assures us we must all stand before him one day to receive reward or punishment for deeds done in the body. My friend, are you ready?
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The living loving Lord gives us other consolations. The world is real, rational and designed for us to understand, appreciate and acknowledge its Creator (Ps 19:1). It makes modern experimental science and all creative endeavors possible. In Christ, he will never leave or forsake us (Matt. 27:20). We have meaningful motivation for service (1 Cor. 15:58). No despair in death and comfort of seeing saved loved ones again (Heb. 2:14-15). Power for witnessing (Acts 1:8). And Christians have assurance of being in the new Heaven and earth. WOW! What terrific benefits!
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My friend, this could be your opportunity to turn from sin to trust in the Savior. You can assure your destiny with the Lord forever. Pray, Lord forgive me and make me your child to live for you from this day forward. Scripture says quite plainly, “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:9).
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Jesus Is The Only Way to Heaven!

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Does everything begun require a beginner? Can time backtrack eternally? Can nothing explode into everything? Can molecules arrange themselves into men? Can we even be rational if all is chance? Christians believe it’s most reasonable that a Creator sustains and explains every particle of matter. There’s no rational basis to deny an intelligent God, creation, miracles, divine revelation, and that the Creator can take on a human nature, body, and tell us all we need to know.
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Skeptics can only make negative assumptions and derogatory accusations--they are just as dogmatic and exclusivist as anyone else. If there’s any possibility of Heaven, it’s terribly foolish to ignore that possibility. There may even be a Hell—skeptics can only hope there isn’t! And anyone arguing there’s no absolute truth assumes his argument true—thus his arguments mean nothing. Now consider arguments for entrance into Heaven.  

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Only God Can Set the Entrance Requirements to His Heaven.

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Ancient peoples believed in some ideal form of life after death. American Indians have their happy hunting grounds. Vikings dying with sword in hand have their Valhalla. Greeks have their Elysian Fields. Egyptians believed that at least their Pharaohs would have an ideal life after death. Of course, we can have different opinions as to what Heaven is like, who can enter Heaven and under what conditions. We all have a right to our own opinions and we have them regardless of what others may think or say. But apart from logical factual evidence, claims about God and the afterlife are mere opinions and guesses unworthy of belief.   

If God were the Creator of Heaven, that would make him its Owner, Lawgiver and Judge. Ownership conveys rights and excludes other opinions and claims. God alone then has the right to say what his Heaven must be like, and what its entrance requirements must be. And if God created man in his image for relationship with him, then it’s reasonable that Heaven exists. So then, no person has any right to tell God he can’t have just one way to enter his Heaven.

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Only God Can Tell Us His Entrance Requirements to His Heaven.

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If we can be opened-minded, there’s biblical evidence a God-man walked among us and told us about the afterlife and Heaven. Since I’ve discussed this evidence in other articles, I won’t discuss it here. It includes fulfillment of hundreds of ancient promises and prophecies about individuals, Israel and other nations. It records supernatural occurrences through angels, miracles, and most specifically the Lord Jesus Christ. Honest examination will show there’s simply nothing like these historical events in other sacred literature. Further, the Bible with all its diversity written over fifteen centuries shows an amazing unity of teaching from creation to recreation not found in other secret literature. Without such actions of God, we have no visible assurance and authority about Heaven, its rightful occupants, and entrance requirements.
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God Has Told Us Moral Perfection Is Required to Enter His Perfect Heaven.

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Almighty God was under no obligation to create a universe but did create one good for his purposes (Gen. 1:1, 4, 10, 12, 18, 25, 31). God made a paradise for man meeting man’s every need. God gave man the choice of eternal life in a love-trust relationship with him in paradise or of a world of good and evil. Man chose to eat from the tree representing a world of good and evil. Thus, all persons are born with a natural tendency to put self above all else including their Lifegiver. God expelling man from paradise showed mercy to keep man from eating from the tree of life and being eternally condemned in sin (selfishness, rebellion and eternal loss). Man’s choice brought the consequences of a cursed world and sinful posterity. Theologians call it the Fall of man. Even then, God gave humanity the promise of redemption (Gen. 3:15; 1 Jn. 3:8). Reason then requires that a morally perfect God find corrupt rebellious persons unfit and unacceptable to enter and maintain His perfect Heaven.

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Jesus, the God-man said, “You shall be perfect, just as you Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48).

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“Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10). See also Rev. 21:27.

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God’s Entrance Requirement Is Trust in the Lamb Slain as a Substitute for Our Sin.

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Only God’s way is acceptable to him and can maintain a 100% perfect Heaven. It must be a humble trust in God’s gift of salvation since we can never achieve perfection or cleanse past sins. It is the greatest expression of love known to man, as the just (Christ) died for the unjust (us sinners). Only the sinless Christ could be the perfect sacrifice for sin and satisfy God’s justice. We can never understand it all; we can only trust the infinite God’s way is right and the only way.

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“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).

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“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten (unique) Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (Jn. 3:16-17).

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Now back to First Corinthians 6:11 speaking to believers, “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified (set apart for God’s service), but you were justified (declared just) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

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Jesus death and resurrection proved he is Lord over death; he is God as he claimed, all he said is God’s absolute truth, and we are not just soulless dirt but created in God’s image with dignity, rights, freedom and responsibility. Will you trust him now for forgiveness of sin and eternal service with and for him who gave his life to save you?

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Jesus & His Contemporary Challenges

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Man has been in rebellion toward God since our first parents, Adam and Eve, ate the forbidden fruit. And likely, that fruit was a fig rather than an apple since no apple is mentioned while the context says they made aprons of fig leaves to cover their shame. How easy it is for us humans to distort God’s Word and believe the devil’s lies, as did our first parents. Their disobedience didn’t make them gods but fallen self-centered human beings under God’s curse of death. Even then, a merciful and gracious God promised a future deliver from Satan, sin, death and Hell (Gen. 3:15; John 1:1-4, 10-14; 8:44; 10:10; Gal. 4:4). Are we their children any different today? 

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Skeptics laugh at this event and call it a fairy tale but all the Bible regards it as a real historical event and bases all it teachings upon it. Indeed, the Bible makes no sense unless it’s true. God fulfilled his promise when he came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Jesus told many times in many ways that he was our God. He gave many proofs beyond what nature or mere man is able to accomplish. But despite visible eyewitness proof, men still refused to believe. Even his own disciples traveling with him more than three years were difficult to convince. It’s no different today.

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In this article, I will examine some of the many adversaries to Jesus and his teachings. I’m largely indebted to the excellent book, Understanding The Times by David A. Noebel

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Creation of Man

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Jesus said God made us from the beginning of creation in his image male and female (Mark 10:6). Come lately atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens often resort to ridicule of God and of believers calling them ignorant and dangerous. They insist that spontaneous generation and evolution explains everything. They prefer to believe something comes from nothing and mindless unconscious molecules arrange themselves into man. But they know actual science shows life comes only from life suggesting an eternal Creator. Thousands of missing links between molecule and man suggest creation of original kinds. Irreducible complex of interrelated human systems and organs suggest divine design. Despite all this contrary evidence of science and reason, and despite man is in a rational and moral category miles above the highest animal, they still insist we are only perishing animals with all the horrors that entails.     

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The Human Soul

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Jesus warned us to fear those who would destroy the soul in Hell (Matt. 10:28). Atheist psychologists Wundt, Watson, Skinner and followers claim we’re only atoms in motion and animals in heat seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. So there’s no soul and no Hell to shun. But they’re only claims--no scientific experiment demonstrates this. Their speculative theories self-destruct not being atoms in motion. We are aware of a consciousness, an ego apart from our physical body. The brain could be the tool through which the mind, self, or soul functions. If it is not so, then all is fixed, determined and we have no free will. Psychology books don’t discuss psychologists’ sexuality. So their unjustified theories may be attempts to relieve their own guilt of sexual immorality. Their materialist reductionist claims discourage clean moral living. 

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Belief in God

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Jesus claimed to be God as clearly understood by the Jews (John 10:30-33). Yet Freud, Nietzsche, Rorty, Dewey and their ilk say persons and cultures create their own God, reality and morality. I wonder if they have ever given any thought to the evidences of Jesus as the God-man, or were only motivated by prejudice and hearsay. The biblical Jesus is not easy to believe nor his teachings easy to practice—they contradict selfish sinful human nature and popular culture. And his, at first skeptical followers, would never have endured ridicule, persecution, and torturous death knowing it all a lie.

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Love God and Man

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Jesus said we should love God with our heart, mind soul, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31). By love, Jesus meant self-giving to help others, not self-taking to gratify our desires. What a beautiful world of cooperation, peace and prosperity we would have if people practiced godly love! But socialist governments such as Russia, China, Cuba and other followers of Marx and Islamic governments following Muhammad’s Quran teachings (Sura’s 2:191; 3:85; 5:33, 51; 9:123), eliminate those who won’t submit to their rule. Dictatorial government control is their pattern, which suppresses free speech, religion and results in a blood bath for the non-submissive millions. Check it out in history.

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God First and Government Second

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Jesus said, “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matt. 22:21). No humanist believes anything belongs to God, as there is no God. A socialist state controls everything including your property, your rights, and your life. Christians are to honor and obey the king and rulers except when they disobey God (Ex. 1:17; Dan. 3:16-18; 6:7, 10; Acts 4:19-20; 5:28-29). Rulers are God appointed to punish evil and maintain order, not destroy their people (Rom. 13). Christians are to pray for rulers and work for good government trusting in God’s rule (Prov. 19:21 21:30).
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Life after Death

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Jesus tells us He is the resurrection and the life (John 11:25). But Dewey, Rorty, Foucault and followers inform us we’re only perishing animals and life is an accident. Why won’t they honestly admit the obvious in nature: something doesn’t come from nothing, disorder doesn’t evolve into order? Buildings, gardens, anything left alone deteriorates, which shows intelligent creation. Life is no accident and chance evolution is not science but the myth of a naturalistic philosophy. Brilliant skeptics have repeatedly tried to explain away the resurrection of Jesus and failed utterly. Honesty has compelled some of them to find eternal life in the Savior of sinners.

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Heaven and Hell

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Jesus promised Heaven for believers and warned unbelievers of Hell (Lk. 19:10; Jn. 3:36; 8:24; 14:6). But Freud, Marx, Russell, Nietzsche and disciples call all religion illusion, neuroses, wishful thinking, an opiate of the masses, and pie in the sky. Their negative comments don’t prove anything about life after death and may indicate their prejudice, fear of judgment, and sin guilty conscience. Moreover, it’s most foolish to ignore the abundant evidence of Jesus’ deity—it’s a self-chosen forever destiny of darkness, tears and torment.

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Men Love Darkness Rather Than Light

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Jesus taught that people love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil (Jn. 3:17-21). We know about all the lies, deceptions, abuses, injustices, murders and still say man is basically good--we want to save face. So we suppress and forget 99% of our wrongdoing and distance ourselves from a perfect holy God. Then we choose idols that don’t command and condemn us. But in rejecting the true God and truth about us, we choose Hell. That’s loving darkness to light. The biblical God lovingly warns us and pleads with us but doesn’t force us—he allows us our choice.

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Apart from Jesus We’re without God and without Hope

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There was no universe and an infinite eternal personal God created it. So God is the Source of matter, mind, life, man, human dignity, truth, ethics, justice, love, a meaningful world, ultimate purpose to life, and assurance of an afterlife (John 1:1-5; Heb. 1:1-3). Godless materialism denies the basis for all these things making us mere perishing animals. Monism claims one substance of energy or force and calls it god (pantheism). It too destroys the Source and basis for all the above believing we’re absorbed into the great pool of nothingness. Jesus showed himself in our space-time world, told us he was God, and demonstrated it by fulfilling ancient prophecies, by miracles, and especially by his resurrection. Jesus calls us to come to him to be saved. Our finite minds will never understand everything. But we’ve evidence enough to make a crucial and wise decision of faith. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” John 11: 25-26 It’s your choice.  

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If you want the Savior and Lord of the universe and all He offers, Romans 10:13 says, “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved”. In humble and sincere trust, pray—

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Lord God of the universe, I’m a sinner unworthy of your gift of eternal life. But you in love died for me to pay for my sins and took the punishment I justly deserve. You promise to save all who will acknowledge their wrongdoing and turn to you in faith. Lord, I trust you from this moment on to be my Savior and Lord throughout life and to guide me to know your will and to do it. Thank you Lord Jesus. Now teach me how to follow your ways and your Word and to tell others of Your promise of everlasting life.
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Is Hitler in Heaven?

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Many persons have a problem believing in Hell. They feel a truly loving God would never send anyone to what they call an eternal torture chamber. We live in a “slap on the hand world”.
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 We overlook evil, think people odd to mention sin, ridicule people with morals as being “holier than thou”. Television teaches us that sex is fun as if we didn’t already know that, that everybody does it, and that it’s just natural even with our own sex. Deception, betrayal, corruption among our national leaders and examples are commonplace. We’re told to go with the flow. Maybe even Hitler is in Heaven. It all comes down to what each person says is sin—or does it? Are there any reasons to say anything is wrong anymore? I say, there sure is! If Hitler isn't in Hell, nothing makes sense. There's no hope for humanity.
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Hitler Would Destroy Heaven.

Hitler sought to impose the Third Reich for a thousand years. He sought to eliminate anybody not of Nordic blood claiming they were inferior. I wonder what the Japanese thought of that! Anyway that meant six million murdered Jews, millions of Gypsies, and anyone who didn’t believe in his policies. He had doctors tie women’s legs together who were about to have babies to observe the results. But Hitler is no exception; he’s only one in a long list of conquers on every continent who merciless murdered men, women and children. They destroy farms, houses and lands wherever they went. It’s our inhuman history worldwide since Cain killed Able. And without regret or remorse, such persons take pride in and brag about their destructive accomplishments.

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Now if there were no Hell, such persons would seek to do the same thing in Heaven they prided themselves doing on earth. They would destroy peace, land and life in Heaven as well. Simply put, there could be no Heaven with Hitler-minded tyrants there—they would turn it into the Hell their lustful desires dictate. And our inherited sin nature makes us all under tempting circumstances capable of becoming another Hitler.

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            “There is none righteous, no, not one;

            There is none who understands;

            There is none who seeks after God.

            They have all turned aside;

            They have together become unprofitable;

            . . . Destruction and misery are in their ways;

            And the way of peace, they have not known;

            There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

            Romans 3:10-12; 16-18

Hitler in Heaven Would Annul God’s Promise to His People.

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Biblical authority, which is our only divinely revealed guide on the afterlife, teaches UNREPENTANT Hitlers won’t inhabit Heaven. Further, it gives true repentant believers in Christ the assurance of Heaven for they have names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and they are justified, washed, set apart unto God. Only Heaven’s Creator, Owner and our Life-Giver could insure such a promise.

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“But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Revelation 21:27

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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, not adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, not revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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                 Hitler in Heaven Would Destroy Moral Incentive on Earth.

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What about human hope and moral incentive? Many persons hope and long for a better world of peace, love, and happiness. They believe in some kind of Heaven or better world they can go to after death and no longer endure all the frustration, failure, heartache and suffering they experienced here. If Heaven is run by Hitlers, all is despair.

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Many feel why even try to follow any rules of human decency? Why try to treat persons with respect? Why not do anything and everything our devilish desires might dictate? There’s no reward for trying to be good. Sin can be fun even if it’s only seasonal and destroys one’s body and mind. No hope for a better future turns this life into even more of a Hell. We have the promise of forgiveness, purity and new life in Christ and in him alone.  

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“You should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance . . . that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ.” Ephesians 4:17-20

Hitler in Heaven Would Defy the Holiness and Sovereignty of God.

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The Bible is unmistakably plain that God is holy or perfect and right in all his ways. He is too good to look upon sin. And God is the Almighty Creator in control of every particle of matter or energy in the universe. God does what He pleases in Heaven and on earth. Nothing can defy Him. But if it is not so, we humans have no hope. The universe is out of control and any calamity or evil may occur.  

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“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” Revelation 4:8

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“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for you created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” Revelation 4:11

                    Hitler in Heaven Ignores the Evidence of Creation and Conscience.

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All creation testifies to the greatness and grandeur of God. The specific arrangement of the elements testifies to God’s intelligence. The immensity of the universe demonstrates his power. Every plant and animal has a specified complexity or genetic plan. Further, life systems are interrelated and irreducibly complex showing life had to be complete and function at the outset. Such marvels cannot be a product of mindless chance and time; open-minded evaluation points not to nature, but to nature’s God. Nature couldn’t make man anymore than nature could form the four faces on Mount Rushmore.

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Conscience in everyone tells us to treat others with the same respect and concern we would want to be treated. Of course, conscience can become insensitive; we can harden our hearts toward others. But let someone mistreat, abuse, or ridicule us and immediately we scream unfair! Not right! Abuse! Let’s not fool ourselves but be honest about it. Conscience testifies to a real right and wrong but makes no ultimate sense unless there’s an ethical standard and personal ethical God to execute judgment. An Absolute Moral Lawgiver and Judge render us without excuse.
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                                  Hitler in Heaven Would Nullify the Atonement of Christ.

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Christ showed himself in our space-time world claiming to be fully man and fully God, the God-man. Unlike other religious leaders, Jesus gave us repeated rational proofs of who he is. Jesus was virgin born, lived without sin, fulfilled ancient prophecies of a coming Messiah promised to be God, performed multiple miracles before astonished disciples and hostile critics, died for our sins on the cross and arose from the dead. History testified to these things for any honest seeker really wanting to know.

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This most loving Lord willingly paid the supreme sacrifice for us and warned us about a real Hell more than anybody else did. What further proof could we possibly require? Hell is real and we had better make our peace with it. That peace comes only when we trust in the Savior of sinners as our Lord.

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But of course, if UNREPENTANT Hitler is in Heaven, that means there’s no Hell and everyone goes to Heaven if we can any longer call it that. So then, how we live in this world or what we believe about God or anything else doesn’t really matter. And the death of the Lord Jesus is of no avail. All hope in the good Lord is dead. The universe becomes an irrational, depressing and a morally meaningless joke on us.

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But!! Hitler is in Hell, which shows our serious mistake to deny the utter necessity of Hell. More serious yet, everyone without faith in Christ will one day be with Hitler. I wonder how friendly the Jews and other unsaved persons he murdered will be to him there! But friend, you don’t have to be with the Hitlers of this world in eternity. Won’t you say--- I commit to you now Jesus as my Lord and Savior from sin from this day forward. I give myself to You Lord who in love gave Yourself for me. And now Lord, I want to share these messages of Your truth  and love with such needy sinful people. You may link my blog to your computer and use my articles to win others to the Savior. God bless.

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The Ultimate Proof of God's Love

THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF GOD’S LOVE

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“You Bible-thumping Christians must be crazy! You say Hell proves God’s love. It proves just the opposite. Love doesn’t sent people to an eternal torture chamber. Love forgives. Love reforms. Love restores. People are good. They just need a little guidance and opportunity. Besides, evolution has disproved God and all that Bible nonsense.”

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Many people think this way today: they claim there’s no God, no absolute truth. So we are free to live any way we like. In our chaotic, insecure, violent, sex-sated world, nothing makes sense. But if we put our unproved skeptical assumptions aside, we can see how the biblical teaching that Hell makes better sense. Consider these points.

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Hell Assures Us of Free Choice and Immortality.

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When Adam, our first father, ignored the tree of life and chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he chose a world of good and evil. His descendents acquired his sinful nature preferring self to God. We are free then to reject God’s loving invitations and warnings, shake our fist at Heaven; insist upon our way until death. Our own decision decides our destiny. God doesn’t send us to Hell; we chose it ourselves and God lets us have our way. God can’t force us to love and obey him—that’s rape. Unless we’re robots, neither environment nor heredity annuls our ability to make contrary choices even to reject God and Heaven. And God loves us enough to tell us the truth.

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Many persons misunderstand what Hell is all about: Hell glorifies our Creator. For it proves God’s ultimate control, His truth, His justice, His love, and His moral rightness. True justice means ungrateful, unresponsive rebellious sinners lose all things held dear in life. They trade cool breezes, loved ones, beautiful scenes and happy times for unending darkness, fiery wrath, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth—that’s a painfully ugly picture of eternal torment. All the while, the righteous shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Mt. 8:12; 13:43).

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Hell Shows God Cares About Injustice and Human Abuse.

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God knows our hearts, feels our pains, hears our cries, and sees our tears. God’s deeply concerned about our plight. God’s patient, not desiring any should perish, but that all come to repentance. Abused wives, raped children, aged persons robbed of their income, murdered persons, all suffer in this life. But God will correct all such injustices. Unlike finite, biased, fickle, bribable human judges, God alone knows our every thought, word and deed. He alone is just or absolutely fair.

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Interactive intelligent design in living things testifies to the infinite knowledge of our Creator. Guilt of conscience in every person points to ethical law and a Lawgiver. But we often ignore and suppress them. The all-knowing, biblical, ethical God revealed in history alone is the foundation for truth, justice and humane treatment. Godless freedom’s consequences compel chaos, corruption, and contempt for life. See it in abortion, suicide, homosexuality, euthanasia. The Bible proverb is indisputable “All those who hate me (God) love death (Prov. 8:36).   

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Hell Gives Life Ultimate Meaning.

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Our choices have consequences to hurt or help our fellow man and us. Believing that God will justly decide our eternal reward or punishment makes all of life purposeful. Our every act takes on meaning, daily and eternally. The world is no meaningless repetitive cycles, but from beginning to end is fulfilling God’s great plan. And the outcome will vary in degree with each person since we’re all different and behave differently. God’s Word tells us what He approves and disapproves. It lights our path, makes us accountable, and gives us the sense of fulfillment, of hope.     

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But atheistic materialism denies everything spiritual—human souls, God, angels, revelations. It gives no authoritative guide, only conflicting, finite, fallible, fickle feelings. We’re responsible to no one but ourselves, to nothing but our desires. We can plead expediency—that is treating others good with hope they will us. But when life frustrates us, our future seems hopeless; fear and guilt paralyze us, then we think why not lie? Why not steal? Why not murder? We’re unlikely to be caught. Besides, the only law among us animals is survival of the fittest. Where’s love now? A nonexistent Hell encourages moral depravity, lawlessness and excludes love; but Hell’s reality makes ethical choices, love, joy, fulfillment and Heaven possible.

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Hell Makes Heaven Possible.

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 God’s holiness excludes sin. “There shall by no means enter it (Heaven) anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of life (Rev. 21:8; 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Unrepentant sinners who hate God and despise righteousness would quickly corrupt Heaven. Like Judas, the wicked have their kind of place quarantined from the righteous. Hell’s not the external torture chamber skeptic’s claim; its inner torment caused by each sinner’s degree of guilt, loss and shame (Mt. 10:15; 11:22-24: Heb. 10:29). And God rewards all who come to love Him and His way (Rev. 21:4-7).

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As long as God and Heaven exist, Hell exists—there’s no annihilation of the wicked (Mt. 24:46; Rev. 21:10). No maggots exist in Hell. Undying worms in the unquenched fire are persons useless to God, destructive of His kingdom, forever subject to His wrath (Jn. 3:36). Worms are used as a term of contempt (Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 66:24). God doesn’t create us free to annihilate us for bad choices. That would be destroying God’s image in us. And existence is better than nonexistence or nothing. God regretfully lets God haters have their own way separate from Him. 

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Hell Is Avoidable through Faith in the Sinner’s Savior.

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Complexity and design in all living things point to a God of infinite intelligence. Our guilty consciences point to an ethical God. In Jesus Christ, God took on a human body and nature. He lived among us a sinless life, demonstrated His deity by fulfilled prophecies and miracles, died in our place to pay for our sin and arose from the dead. Jesus said that if we don’t believe his claim to be God we will die in our sins; that’s conscious unending torment in Hell (John 8:24). Jesus is living visible proof of God’s promise of eternal life and the warning of torment in outer darkness.

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Let’s not be deceived about the existence and nature of Hell, or about our sin before a perfect God and our rejection of the Savior that can save us from its darkness and torments (I Cor. 6:9-10). It’s your choice: the pleasures of ungodly sin for a season, or the joys and fulfillment with a loving Lord forever. Say YES to Jesus and become a good news messenger doing your best to serve your Maker, Redeemer, Owner, and Judge. Link my blog to your computer and share it with friends. Thank U. God bless you and your ministry.

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